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Microsoft has released five critical patches in its October security update. It pushed out the bumper update despite a user backlash in April over a similar sized release.

Computer Weekly has also learnt that one patch (MS04-028) in the update could fail if installed on a machine running XP SP2.

Phil Cracknell, chief technology officer at security firm netSurity, said the patches were not related to one particular protocol in Windows systems. "This makes it difficult for IT managers to know how to apply a patch. Users will need to take down their whole IT system," he said.

"One of the patches requires the user to press a button to install, but since the patch is only applied when the machine is shutting down, it is not possible to use a mouse or keyboard to do this," he said.

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